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Quotes by Dramatist
"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
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"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
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"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
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"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
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"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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